A Vice Chairman of a local government in Abia State has cried out over alleged sexual harassment by his male boss, reports The Gazelle News.com.
Princess Peace Nwobilo, Vice Chairman of Aba South Local Government Area of Abia State accused the Chairman of the council and her boss, Clinton Ebere, of sexually harrasing her.
In a three page petition addressed to the the Aba South Stakeholders, Nwobilo alleged that Ebere had tried to sexually harrassed her twice.
In the petition titled, ‘Sexual Harrassment and Abuse of Office Conduct’, she stated that she escaped the Chairman’s traps, ‘by the grace of God’.
According to her, Ebere first harrassed her on the eve of the governorship primary in 2018 while “the second attempt he made to rape me was after we were sworn in, precisely on January 14th, 2021, when he invited me over for a meeting at Trace Garden Hotel, Brass Street, Aba”.
The council chairman however denied the allegation, going on to set up a committee to investigate the matter. The Committee later submitted that the allegations were false.
The Governor of the state, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, on his part, warned the duo that they should focus on what they were elected to do.
According to a statement by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Professor Anthony Agbazuere, both Ebere and Nwobilo were elected to provide dividends of democracy to people of Aba South LG rather than fan the embers of discord and rancour.
The Governor therefore cautioned the duo to work together and to refrain from such discussion in their own interest.
“A word should be enough for the wise,” the Governor said.
Additional report: The Punch
